ACHILLE MBEMBE AS BLACK THEOLOGIAN. Issue 3 (July 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- ACHILLE MBEMBE AS BLACK THEOLOGIAN. Issue 3 (July 2016)
- Main Title:
- ACHILLE MBEMBE AS BLACK THEOLOGIAN
- Authors:
- Lloyd, Vincent
- Abstract:
- Abstract : The Cameroon-born, South Africa-based Achille Mbembe is one of the preeminent theorists of race writing today. Leading the current wave of critical race scholarship that views anti-Blackness as a metaphysical rather than merely social problem, Mbembe's work brings together the tools of psychoanalysis, critical theory, and postcolonial studies. In De la postcolonie: essai sur l'imagination politique dans l'Afrique contemparaine (2000), 1 Mbembe focuses his critical lens on Africa as object of fantasy and resistance to fantasy; in his most recent work, Critique de la raison nègre (2013), 2 Mbembe turns to the figure of the Black. While Mbembe himself offers provocative suggestions about the implications of his work for religious thought, his account of anti-Blackness as a metaphysical problem opens constructive avenues for re-thinking Black theology. When Blackness is defined by death, the critical practice Mbembe describes and commends may be understood as a form of resurrection, restoring death-bound-being to life. I argue that reading Mbembe as part of a conversation in Black theology can expand the Black theological imagination.
- Is Part Of:
- Modern believing. Volume 57:Issue 3(2016)
- Journal:
- Modern believing
- Issue:
- Volume 57:Issue 3(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 57, Issue 3 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0057-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 241
- Page End:
- 251
- Publication Date:
- 2016-07
- Subjects:
- ACHILLE MBEMBE -- AFRICAN THEOLOGY -- BLACK THEOLOGY -- PSYCHOANALYSIS -- RACISM
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248.4 - Journal URLs:
- http://liverpool.metapress.com/content/122876 ↗
http://www.search.atlaonline.com/pls/eli/eli_bd.volsuper?TXT=n1353-1425 ↗ - DOI:
- 10.3828/mb.2016.18 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1353-1425
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- Legaldeposit
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